On 01-07-25 Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 01:55:34AM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote: > > I got two already to my home email and one through my debian.org > > address, all from different people. Now it's funny to see just how far > > this one is spread already (I never got that many virus mails in such a > > short time span), but each weighs in at ~200kB, which is quite annoying.
> > (At least I think we're talking about the same virus.)
> That's the one. I got an attachment which was almost 600kb with one of them.
Only 600kb? I got one with more then 3mb. :(
> All with innovative filenames like .doc.pif, .doc.bat, .doc.exe, .doc.com.
Which is a usual behaviour for this virus called SirCam.
> Would you think MS would release an Outlook update that would address this
> in some way? It's not exactly a new trick.
Update for which part exactly? The biggest problem are still the user
who either click on every attachment they get or use the auto-preview
option, which often also triggers the same effect (execution of the
attachment.:) So the only way of to avoid spreading the virus is to
educate the users.
Christian
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